The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-04
What Shall we Drink

HIS question u uelhS dShtu ny many
| with so much anxiety that one not IA
miliar with the facts would readily infer
that alcoholic stimulants are necessity
| for the well-being of the organism, but
such is not the case.
We are sure that no one who under
stands human physiology, and is at all
familiar with the deleterious influence OF
| alcohol upon the delicate structures of the
nervous centers which preside over the
| functions of organic life, will claim that it
| is a promoter of mans best interest. In
| deed there are thousands Of eminent phy-
sicians who claim that it is of such doubt
! full utility in disease that they never pre-
scribe it. 1t is evident from the creative
act of God that man, in his original ply
! siological purity, required 10 alcohol, or
else a sample of it would have been found
in the Garden of Eden.
| After God had finished His creation He
announced to man that the garden in
which he was placed contained everything
necessary for his sustenance and all that
could promote health and happiness III
| this life.
/ 1t would seem that if alcohol had been
necessary to mans bliss, it would have
been one of the prime objects in creation.
and yet it cannot be shown that God ever
created single drop Of it. Then what
shall We drink in order to promote health
and happiness Reason and prudence
would point back to the garden with its
pure fountains of water. which no other
| fluid can replace in health or in sickness.
For refreshment we find the unfermented
juices of the luscious grapes. oranges,
lemons, lines, etc. But, says one, the or
ganc functions may be exhausted and re-
quire an organic stimulant lc recuperate
them. If We turn again to the garden we
find these supplied in the coffee and tea
plants, the resins and juices of the
thousands of medicinal plants.
How, then, shall We account for the
morbid appetite for stimulants? In every
case it is either acquired or inherited, and
hence when any one is found craving alco-
holic stimulants, it is an evidence of a
moral and physical faint and requires the
closest scrutiny and attention of nom
alcoholic prescriber -Souttern JouinM.
counter to every good and right influence.
Bars in harbors are dangerous and are
removed at public cost.
Liquor bars are dangerous to our home
harbors, and should also be removed. Hold
them up before the Bar of Public Opin-
ion. plead against them at the ''Bar of
God" They are relies OF ''liar-bar" ism,
and unworthy Of the age.
To bar is to hinder, and liquor drinking
hinders the progress of art and science
and industry. 1t has destroyed many Of
the foremost men in all avocations.
A liquor bar is a bar or barrier against
good society, against personal comfort,
and against home, mother, father. sister,
brother. children and friends. All these
are barred out Of their rights, and debarred
from natural privileges, by those who pa
tronize the Bar and these last often end
their days ''behind the Bars ''-Driaker' s
Dictionary.
y lady worker called at the meat mar
ket in her village and, with much misgiv-
ing, asked the proprietor for dollar to-
wards paying temperance lecturer of note
who was soon to speak for the w. c. r.
l. His reply was as follows: There's
your dollar Eve sold more meat in one
| day since this town went no license than
used to in a week when we had the sa-
looms" The man didn't realize it, but he
had made a most convincing speech to a
most appreciative audience.